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Hillsdale PD: Allendale Robber Injures Car Service Driver, Fights Police
An Allendale man tried to rob a ride service driver by smashing him in the head and assaulted Hillsdale police who arrested him, authorities said. Then he smiled for his mugshot.
Responding officers found the 37-year-old driver from Newark bleeding from a cut above his eye in the area of Hillsdale Avenue and Hunters Court around 12:50 a.m. Monday, Detective Bill Diedtrich said.
The driver told them he’d been assaulted by Matthew Hughes, 24, in an attempt to rob him of $20, Diedtrich said.
After calling an ambulance, police approached Hughes, who, the detective said, “highly intoxicated and…
